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donarb commented on Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam    · Posted by u/sbf501
mkl · 4 years ago
> A few vendors got upset that I had their name in the address

I've had more confused than upset, but Samsung straight-up refuses to accept email addresses with "samsung" in them. I'm not sure what they think they're accomplishing.

I think I get more spam from hacked/leaked email databases than sold ones. Dropbox is the worst (signed up and used it briefly over a decade ago, and now suffer an eternity of spam).

donarb · 4 years ago
You should've just changed the address to 'spamsung'.
donarb commented on A shortage of Dijon mustard in France   economist.com/the-economi... · Posted by u/samizdis
pvaldes · 4 years ago
Time to jump to horseradish.
donarb · 4 years ago
Or horseradish mustard, pretty good stuff.
donarb commented on Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)   web.archive.org/web/20180... · Posted by u/varbhat
warmwaffles · 4 years ago
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
donarb · 4 years ago
"The fix is temporary, unless it works" -- Red Green
donarb commented on House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report   seekingalpha.com/news/386... · Posted by u/thesecretceo
notafraudster · 4 years ago
The Senate routinely takes voice votes for which no rollcall division is recorded.

But there is generally little incentive to make votes private because in general legislators want to engage in credible credit-claiming (including about margins of passage and rates of bipartisanship) and parties want to preserve the whip as well.

donarb · 4 years ago
What? Republicans in Congress will routinely vote against funding legislation and then show up at ribbon cuttings bragging how they fought to get the funding for their district. Just out and out lie about voting for it.
donarb commented on Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range   twitter.com/wk057/status/... · Posted by u/noasaservice
freerobby · 4 years ago
That sucks. Got a link by chance?

That's definitely not a standard practice, but I can see how that would happen by mistake (e.g. forget to remove FSD from the spec sheet) and then be difficult to get fixed. It's near-impossible to reach the right human at Tesla, so when things fall through the cracks, it's a nightmare. I suspect that's the issue OP is quoting, too -- there's likely a reasonable person at Tesla who can and would help if they knew about this story.

donarb · 4 years ago
donarb commented on Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range   twitter.com/wk057/status/... · Posted by u/noasaservice
thomaslord · 4 years ago
There are documented cases of Tesla selling a pre-owned vehicle that was purchased with an optional feature, listing that optional feature in the sale ad, and then disabling the feature after the person they sold the car to has taken possession.
donarb · 4 years ago
donarb commented on After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service   ctinsider.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/starkd
GiorgioG · 4 years ago
As much progress has been made in EVs, I have no interest in sitting atop of a napalm bomb while zipping around town. There's a few problems that keep me from being remotely interested in EVs, this is one of them. The others are range anxiety, energy storage portability and battery replacement costs.

If I run out of gas on the side of the highway, I call AAA and they can deliver me a couple of gallons of gas or I can walk to a gas station. If your EV runs out of juice, you have to have it towed to a charging station.

donarb · 4 years ago
AAA has offered mobile charging for electric vehicles for over 10 years.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15346575/placebo-on-wheel...

donarb commented on Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++   thenewstack.io/google-lau... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
tekknik · 4 years ago
knowing neither of these languages i’d rather it be labeled something more clear as neither one of those screams immutable to me. the immutable variant should use the ‘const’ keyword instead.
donarb · 4 years ago
Const variables are traditionally initialized at compiled time. In Swift, let may be initialized at runtime and then becomes immutable.
donarb commented on Did Einstein say that? (2018)   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/2517AD
donarb · 4 years ago
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
donarb commented on Being on call sucks   bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
donarb · 4 years ago
Years ago, I was a second-shift operator in a computer center for an insurance company. We ran production jobs on an IBM mainframe. When jobs would crash we would write up the error on an ABEND form (IBM called crashes ABENDs for ABnormal END), collect the printout and call the programmer responsible. One night a production job crashed late in my shift about 10:30-11 pm and I woke up the programmer responsible. He seemed really groggy and it took a few minutes for me to describe the crash to him. I would always try to be helpful and suggest options for recovery (you got to know the programmers and what their recommendations would be based on the type of production job). Usually they would hold the job, restart it or say they were coming in to fix, this was back in the day where if they could log in remotely, it was with a clunky CRT terminal.

The programmer told me to just restart the job, I noted that on the form. I came in the next day and my boss called me into his office, his boss was there too. They wanted to know why I restarted the job, which caused all kinds of corruption to the database. They had spent the better part of the day recovering the database, then running the batch job, which meant that that system was unavailable for use by the agents.

The programmer swore up and down he did not tell me to restart the job, said I never called him! He was that deep into sleep. But on the form I noted the time I called him and his response to restart the job, so they believed me.

This highlights a problem with people responsible for multi-million dollar systems being woken up in the middle of the night and having to make quick critical decisions.

u/donarb

KarmaCake day1882March 25, 2015View Original